Tonight is my night! 2011 Uncirc penny from roll - Double "B"

I think it is pretty pronounced, eh?


Perhaps I should smoke crack... it'd probably be less addicting

 

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Looks like Machine doubling to me, but what do I know.

 

Yeah, probably. But the rush was fun while it lasted. It looked funky at 10x, so I ran with it.

 

Minus the crack, that is a good attitude and what it is all about.

 

I'm a very enthusiastic rookie, I collected a lot when I was a kid but quit collecting for about 25 years before recently getting back into it.....I was just wondering what machine doubling is, and why it would take away from the chance of this being a valuable coin?

 

Machine doubling are like die cracks, they're pretty common so they don't demand much from collectors.

Basically, machine (mechanical) doubling is mechanical failure that causes the doubling, either from vibrations, shifting of the coin during the strike, etc.

 

After looking at this a bit more, while not being so sleepy, I've concluded the only true error is the typo in "LIBERTY". The mint inadvertently used a 1 instead of an I

 

I'm glad your willing to learn what machine doubling is, look at this site for a nice writeup with great pictures.

http://www.errorvariety.com/OFD/index.html

 

It more or less means the coin rattled in the holder when struck.